Will Hurd

Will Hurd (19 August 1977-) was a member of the US House of Representatives (R-TX 23) from 3 January 2015, succeeding Pete Gallego. He was the first African-American Republican elected to the US Congress from Texas.

Biography
Will Hurd was born in San Antonio, Texas in 1977, and he worked for the CIA from 2000 to 2009; he became fluent in Urdu while working undercover in Pakistan. He returned to Texas after his CIA service and worked for a strategic advisory firm and for a cybersecurity firm. In 2009, he was elected to the US House of Representatives as a Republican Party congressman, representing the territory between San Antonio and El Paso on the US-Mexico border. He was the first black Republican congressman from Texas.